OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Behavioral Development is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Can language modulate perceptual narrowing for faces? Other-race face recognition in infants is modulated by language experience	130
Prediction from early childhood vocabulary to academic achievement at the end of compulsory schooling in Denmark	35
Emotion understanding in internationally adopted children and children in residential care: Developmental periods and mediation by language	33
Multiple child caregivers and multiple cognitive caregiving practices: Associations with early childhood development in 51 low- and middle-income countries	30
Does negative parenting behavior lead to later peer victimization? A longitudinal co-twin control study	29
Parental regulation of parent and child screen-based device use	24
Prospective associations between peer victimization in adolescence and parental stress and self-efficacy: Self-esteem and internalizing problems as pathways	21
Comparing primary caregiver and teacher ratings of mental health in preschool children	18
Association of prospective memory and social wellbeing in midlife to old age in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	18
Introduction to the special section on social norms and behavioral development	17
Maturation or disruption? Conscientiousness development in the transition into adolescence	16
Discrimination and sense of purpose: Taking an intergenerational lens	16
Development of ambiguity aversion from early adolescence to adulthood: New insights from the Ellsberg paradox	15
Investigating the developmental timing of self-regulation in early childhood	15
Longitudinal associations between popularity, peer acceptance, and academic performance in adolescents	14
Family obligation moderates longitudinal associations between parental psychological control and adjustment of urban adolescents	14
Dynamic patterns of affect-biased attention in children and its relationship with parenting	13
Admitting to bullying others or denying it: Differences in children’s psychosocial adjustment and implications for intervention	13
Age differences and profiles in pro-environmental behavior and eco-emotions	12
Parent emotional regulation: A meta-analytic review of its association with parenting and child adjustment	12
Romantic attachment styles, harsh parenting behavior, and children’s emotional reactivity: A process model	12
Reciprocal associations between child disclosure, parental solicitation, and behavior problems during middle childhood	11
Growing up in Victoria, Australia, in the midst of the climate emergency	11
Adolescent-directed racial-ethnic socialization: Developmental processes that contribute to adolescents’ ability to provide racial-ethnic socialization within immigrant family contexts	10
A mediation analysis to disentangle relations between maternal education and early child development	10

Self-regulation and academic achievement among Singaporean young children: A cross-cultural comparison in a multicultural Asian society	10
A lifespan psychological perspective on solitude	10
Assessing peer influence and susceptibility to peer influence using individual and dyadic moderators in a social network context: The case of adolescent alcohol misuse	9
Self-reported shyness and social and school adjustment in children and adolescents	9
A cultural comparison of children’s emotion knowledge: Data from two cultures	9
The globalization and localization of moral values: A cultural-developmental study of adolescents and their parents	9
Dynamics of parenting and children’s coping: Bidirectional effects between parent motivational support and children’s academic coping during late childhood and early adolescence	9
Bidirectional relationships between emotion understanding and executive functions in young children: A latent change score modeling study	8
What does it mean to be susceptible to influence? A brief primer on peer conformity and developmental changes that affect it	8
Promoting adolescent adjustment by intervening in ethnic-racial identity development: Opportunities for developmental prevention science and considerations for a global theory of change	8
Impact of a school-based social skills training program on parent–child relationships and parent attitudes toward school	8
Exploring the autonomous-relatedness model: Parental goals and preschoolers’ prosocial development during cultural shifts	8
Perceived stress trajectories from age 25 to 50 years	7
Children draw favorite peers close to them in pictures: Longitudinal evidence from picture-drawing task and social network analyses	7
How far does the apple fall from the tree? A cross-sectional study of the relationship between child and parent self-regulation mediated by parenting practices	7
Prospective associations of prosocial behavior and aggression with social preference: Moderation by classroom levels of peer-perceived liking and disliking by the teacher	6
Opioid exposure in gestation, postnatal adversity, and preschool-age cognitive functioning	6
Reliability and validity of the responsive care tool for children 0–3 years old in a rural, South Asian setting	6
Influence of parenting styles on children’s development of externalizing behaviors: The role of resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia	6
Gender differences in inhibitory control as assessed on simple delay tasks in early childhood: A meta-analysis	5
Inter-relations between mind-mindedness, maternal communicative style in the context of attachment distress, and infant–mother attachment security	5
Latent growth curve analyses of emotional awareness and emotion regulation in early and middle adolescence	5
Choosing friends based on similarity or popularity? Friendship preferences of children exhibiting bullying and defending in late childhood	5
Cultivating child prosocial behavior in dynamic family systems: The distinct role of family conflict and parental monitoring	5
Moral emotions in early childhood: Validation of the Moral Emotions Questionnaire (MEQ)	5
Accommodative coping and preparation for age-related changes: Results from a four-wave panel study	5
Normative views and resource distribution behavior in childhood: Dissociated at the group level, but associated at the individual level	4
Facial emotion recognition and social-emotional problems in middle childhood: Assessment of directional effects	4
Positive transactional processes from age 3 to 15: Social competence, maternal parenting, and fathers’ support for mothers	4
Early career gender differences in job burnout trajectories in Finland: Roles of work, family, and financial resources	4
Associations among symbolic functioning, joint attention, expressive communication, and executive functioning of children in rural areas	4
Responses to social inequality across the life span: The role of social status and upward mobility beliefs	4
Do adolescent and young adult sexters and non-sexters have distinct value orientations?	4
What she believes or what she says? The relation between maternal social dominance orientation, right-wing authoritarianism, mental state talk, and children’s theory of mind	4
Alone with my phone? Examining beliefs about solitude and technology use in adolescence	4
Linking persistence and executive functions with later academic achievement	4
Maintaining physical activity in older adults: The importance of health-specific control strategies	4
How is mental health associated with adolescent alpha-amylase and cortisol reactivity and coordination?	3
Self-concept at different stages of life: How do early and late adolescents and young, middle-aged, and older adults describe themselves?	3
Functional connectivity markers of prematurity at birth predict neurodevelopmental outcomes at 6, 12, 24, and 36 months	3
Civic science education for youth-driven water security: A behavioral development approach to strengthening climate resilience	3
The role of ISSBD in developmental science: Views of Past Presidents	3
Parent–child conversations about refugee newcomers are associated with children’s refugee-specific prosociality	3
The Adult Prosocialness Behavior Scale: A reliability generalization meta-analysis	3
Editorial coda	3
Longitudinal pathways between maternal depression, parenting behaviors, and early childhood development: A mediation analysis	3
Measuring communication openness within adoptive families: The psychometric properties of the multi-informant Adoption Communication Openness Scale	3
The quality of early caregiving and teacher-student relationships in grade school independently predict adolescent academic achievement	3
Subjective perceptions of age-related gains buffer negative associations of perceived age-related losses with health, well-being, and engagement	3
The effect of implementation intentions on event-, time-, and activity-based prospective memory in typically developing children	3

Validation of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in younger adults	2
Optimistic children engage in more constructive risk-taking behaviors	2
The forms and functions of parental control and parental warmth across cultures: Evidence for commonality and specificity	2
The interchangeability of liking and friend nominations to measure peer acceptance and friendship	2
Prospective associations of maternal stressors with child psychosocial problems through the occurrence of child physical abuse and changes in family dynamics	2
Harnessing peer influence: A summary and synthesis of social network and peer-led intervention research	2
Too easy, too hard, or just right: Lifespan age differences and gender effects on task difficulty choices	2
Rage, revenge, reward, and recreation: Validating short-form measures of adolescents’ aggression across offline and online contexts	2
A longitudinal study of parents’ home-safety practices to prevent injuries during infancy	2
Advanced scaling and modeling of children’s theory of mind competencies: Longitudinal findings in 4- to 6-year-olds	2
Can changing schools help peer-victimized students escape their plight? A mixed-methods study	2
New evidence for a visuo-spatial cumulative rehearsal strategy in children’s working memory	2
Examining goal re-engagement as a mediator of longitudinal associations between awareness of age-related change and vitality in midlife and older adulthood	2
Climate change and resilience: Developmental science perspectives	2
A framework for interpreting the relationship between risk-taking and self-control in adolescence	2
Children’s domain-specific self-evaluations and global self-worth: A preregistered cross-cultural meta-analysis	2
Parental warmth moderates the relation between children’s lying and theory-of-mind	2
War exposure prior to conception: Longitudinal associations between maternal emotional distress and child sleep 10 years later	2
Psychological correlates of crush experiences during early adolescence: Features of the crush experience matter	2
Longitudinal associations between preschool children’s theory of mind, emotion understanding, and positive peer relationships	2
Friend loss exacerbates adjustment difficulties among shy children	1
On the microfoundations of the link between classroom social norms and behavioral development	1
Introduction to the special section on parenting across cultures: Bridging commonalities and specificities in parental control and warmth	1
The joint effects of individual-level and classroom-level teacher−child relationships on children’s psychosocial adjustment: A longitudinal study	1
The adolescent dysregulation profile and its association with educational, occupational, and substance use outcomes in emerging adulthood	1
Children’s and adolescents’ reasoning about distributive fairness and educational inequalities	1
Longitudinal associations of self-control with subjective well-being and psychological well-being: The mediating roles of basic psychological need satisfaction and self-authenticity	1
Configural properties of face portraits change between childhood and adulthood	1
Co-occurrence of internalizing difficulties and aggression in early childhood and risk of mental health problems in middle childhood	1
Impact of language familiarity on abstract pattern recognition in 9- to 12-month-old infants	1
Character attributes scale: An integrative idiographic and differential approach to measuring character	1
Children’s peer rejection trajectories and Internet gaming addiction: A five-wave growth mixture model	1
Children’s prosocial lying: Polite versus altruistic lies in different social contexts	1
Parental reactions to child negative emotions and child behavioral adjustment: The moderating role of child inhibitory control	1
Subtypes of childhood social withdrawal and adult relationship and parenting outcomes	1
Young children’s representation of people who are elsewhere—Or dead	1
Are (pre)adolescents differentially susceptible to experimentally manipulated peer acceptance and rejection? A vignette-based experiment	1
Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale: A reliability generalization meta-analysis	1
Birth family contact from childhood to adulthood: Adjustment and adoption outcomes in adopted young adults	1
Longitudinal associations between quality of out-of-school time and adolescent social skills	1
Subjective age and pulmonary function in midlife and old age: Evidence for between-person associations and within-person co-occurrence	1
Perceived parental expectations and their role in academic and psychosocial functioning	1
“Do I know how you feel?” Parents’ and adolescents’ recognition of each other’s daily moods	1
Parent and teacher involvement and adolescent academic engagement: Unique, mediated, and transactional effects	1
Predicting changes in classroom aggression status norms: The role of teachers’ normative beliefs and students’ perceived support	1
The impact of affective touch on physiological self-regulation among preschool-age children: The influence of emotional context and effortful control	1
In the face of adversity: Refugee children’s traumatic stressors, trust, and prosocial behavior	1
Evidence for similar conceptual progress across diverse cultures in children’s understanding of emotion	1
Generativity, perceptions of positive changes, and mental health in middle-aged and older adults	1
Persistence on challenging tasks mediates the relationship between childhood poverty and mental health problems	1